[email protected] wrote:
> Hi, Dave, since you are not familiar with the word 'fixie' (a subject
> which is dear to my heart) it refers to a type of bicycle which only
> has one gear and will not 'coast' or 'freewheel'.
>
> There are many of these exciting machines here:-
>
> http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/
>
> Lewis.
>
> *****
>
>
> David J. Braden wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> David J. Braden wrote:
>>>> geepeetee wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip>how many times will the powerlink stand removal and
>>>>> refitting. From the mileaege and weather conditions i need to remove and
>>>>> clean at leat once a fortnight, is this about right?
>>>>>
>>>>> later
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>>
>>>> <snip>Can someone help Gary and me a bit here?
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> Dave Braden
>>> Well, I can give you my limited experience. I live in the Seattle
>>> area, plenty of rain here. I started out using Finish Line teflon
>>> "wet" lube. Needed cleaning often. Changed to Dumonde Tech - needed
>>> cleaning often, and I later found out it should be applied immediately
>>> *before* a ride, when the chain warms up some sort of polymerization
>>> takes place. I tend to lube my chains in the PM - in the AM I get on
>>> the bike and ride to work/bus and I don't want to get up early to lube
>>> my chain! Switched to ProGold, cleaner and seems to last almost as
>>> well in the rain. Doesn't have to be applied drop-at-a-time like
>>> Dumonde. My LBS recommended White Lighting Epic for lubing cables,
>>> chain and what-have-you. I've tried it on my fixie and it seems to
>>> work about as well as the ProGold without the requirement to start with
>>> a clean chain. In fact, it's recommended to use the Epic to clean the
>>> chain, then lube. Since the Epic is easy to get I may switch when the
>>> ProGold runs out. I have a tiny sample bottle of the purple stuff,
>>> which I'll try on the fixie when I feel like doing the thorough
>>> cleaning it requires.
>>>
>>> Anyway, at the rate I ride my chains get cleaned every few hundred
>>> miles and lubed quite a bit more often than that. In another couple
>>> thousand miles I'll know how that's working out.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>> Hi John
>>
>> Thanks for the leads. I followed you up to "fixie", which is to me as
>> intelligible as "Pareto optimality" or even "Lebesgue integrable" and
>> "Banach space" is to my neighbors, all of whom live in Silicon valley,
>> within 2 miles of Google, Intel, HP, Yahoo, Adobe, Apple, etc. (vbg)
>>
>> What brand/model of chain are you using, please? I assume your chain is
>> getting a lot of tension, given the hills in town and mountains nearby.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dave B
>
Whoa, Lewis, Thanks for the clarification! What sorta blows me away is
that I saw my first "fixie" just yesterday, on a "bike car" CalTrans
runs between San Jose and San Francisco (California). Its owner was so
condescending of observing a 'bent rider (me), purely for having the
'bent, that I didn't pursue my curiosity about /his/ bike. While I can
think of loads of reasons for condescending me, I truly was innocent and
well-mannered in boarding, and hadn't said a word, nor recall ever
having seen this guy before; he had a genuine disgust towards 'bents.
Perhaps because they are polar opposite of fixies? Dunno, but I *do*
appreciate your help, and envy the folks who can handle the entire gamut
of human-powered bikes and their ilk.
Ideas on chains?
Regards,
Dave Braden